So I was just minding my business, playing Skyrim, in a nearly 200-hour run that has not even reached Solstheim yet, when tragedy struck. I discovered a pink branch with a missing texture in the shadow of Red Mountain (quest mod location), a fitting parallel for the apocalyptic ruin this missing texture was about to bring me. When I saw it I immediately opened the console and identified its Formid. I loaded up SSEEdit and found the Formid under the Dragonborn.esm plugin. I went to its MODL and saw it was being overwritten by Nature of the Wild Lands.esp. I first attempted to find the Nature of the Wild Lands .nif file under the data tab, meshes folder in M02's right panel, but it was not there, so I extracted the Nature of the Wild Lands .bsa files and found it there. I then opened it up in NifSkope and observed its BSTriShape>BSLightingShaderProperty>BSShaderTextureSet and saw the file its getting its textures from are the branch01.dds and branch01_n.dds. When I went to the file address, I saw branch01_n.dds but not the branch01.dds file. There is a branch02.dds and branch02_n.dds in the same file which made me even more confused. My question for anyone willing to help is whether or not this is the best practice when looking to solve a missing texture problem and whether I even have my fingers pointed in the right direction? And if I do have my fingers pointed in the right direction, what can even do then from here?
Note in case of relevancy: I used the QAC function by the SSEEdit team on all of my vanilla Skyrim .esms; specifically Dawnguard, Dragonborn, HearthFires, and Update, but I can not for the life of me think of a reason this would be a part of my issue. I am putting this note here because the .nif file is from the Dragonborn.esm and maybe somebody with more experience in modding can tell me whether or not that even matters.
